SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS 
2023    The Compass Rose, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
2017    Models for a System, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2017    Common Goods, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2016    Source Materiel, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2015    The Fort, Signal Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
2014    Set Dressing, Arts Club of Chicago, IL
2013    Rudiments of Fife & Drum, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2013    Living History, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011    The Cries of San Francisco, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2011    Piece Work, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO
2010    Pitcher Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010    Needle Work, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2010    Fancy Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 
2010    ARTS & SKILLS Service, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 
2008    The Donkey, The Jackass, and The Mule, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN 
2007    Notion Nanny, University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
2006    Hobby Horse, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2005    Notion Nanny, Studio Voltaire, London, England
2005    Victory Hall, Bellwether, New York, NY
2005    The Muster, Public Art Fund, Governors Island, New York Harbor, NY
2005    Armory, The Armory Show: International Fair of New Art, Bellwether, New York, NY
2002    Stilleven, evenStill, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023    Queer Threads,  San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA 
2023    Prima Materia, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2022    Another Crossing, The Box, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK
​2021    Climbing the Holy Hill, Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA
2021    Another Crossing, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2020    The Word For World is Forest, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2020    Resisting Incarceration Culture: Art as Survival, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2019    Making (It) Work, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2018    Two of Wands: Adam Milner and Allison Smith, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2018    Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times (Part 1), di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
2018    Cast of Characters, BSGQD, LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
2018    Play It Again: The Art of Remaking, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
2018    Reading Room: The Feminist Art of Self Help, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2018    In Terms of Performance, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY 
2018    A Page From My Intimate Journal (Part 1), Gordon Robichaux gallery, New York, NY
2017    L'Atelier Buffile: 70 Ans de Céramique à Aix, Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France
2017    Common Exchange, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA
2017    State of the World, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2017    Third Space, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2017    Artadia Booth, Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco, CA 
2016    The Stand-ins, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016    Allison Smith, Marie Lindgren, and [Krig], Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
2015    The Collectors, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015    Here We LTTR (LTTR Archive), Tensta Konsthall, Tensta, Sweden
2015    Alien She (LTTR Archive), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2015    The Way We Live Now, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2015    What Is To Come Has Already Arrived, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
2015    What Is To Come Has Already Arrived, Koldo Mixtelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, Spain
​2014    Artadia, The Battery, San Francisco, CA
2014    One Thing Then Another, 3 Days Awake, Los Angeles, CA
2014    What Is To Come Has Already Arrived, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
2014    Cross Section: Recent Acquisitions, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2014    MoMA Studio: Breathe with Me, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2013    Labour and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
2013    Social Fabric, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2012    We the People, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2012    Cultural Transference, EFA Project Space, New York, NY 
2012    International Orange, FOR-SITE Foundation, Fort Point, San Francisco, CA
2011    The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
2011    Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011    Embodying, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2010    Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010    Open Score Variations, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2010    The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2009    No Bees, No Blueberries, Harris Lieberman gallery, New York, NY
2009    The Old, Weird America, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA
2008    The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
2008    Democracy in America, Creative Time, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2008    Gestures of Resistance, Gray Matters Gallery, College Art Association, Dallas, TX
2008    On Procession, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
2008    Inner and Outer Space, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2008    Ethnographies of the Future, BRIC Arts | Media House, Brooklyn, NY
2007    Funny Shadows, Clifford Chance US, New York, NY 
2007    Poe & Twain Projects, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2007    ÉTATS (faites-le vous-même)/ GROW YOUR OWN, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2007    Interstate: The American Road Trip, High Desert Test Sites, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2006    Art in America, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea
2006    Ahistoric Occasion, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2006    The “F” Word, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2006    Was Wäre Wenn #4: Hands-On History, JET, Berlin, Germany
2005    You are Here, Ballroom Marfa, TX
2005    Greater New York, P.S.1/Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, NY
2005    Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York, NY
2005    We Could Have Invited Everyone, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY 
2004    Explosion LTTR, Art in General, New York, NY 
2003    Formed to Function? John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2002    End of the Rainbow, Bellwether gallery, New York, NY
2001    Sharon Core, Simone Dilaura, and Allison Smith, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
1997    Fearful Symmetry, Clementine, New York

AWARDS & HONORS
2021    Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Award, San Francisco, CA
2015    National Endowment for the Arts Project Grant, Washington, DC
2010    United States Artists Fellowship, New York, NY
2010    Creative Work Fund Visual Arts Grant, San Francisco, CA
2009    Alternative Exposure Grant, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2009    Artadia Award, San Francisco, CA
2008    Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, New York, NY
2007    New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship, New York, NY
2005    Arts Council England Grant, London, UK
2005    Jerwood Charitable Foundation Grant, London, UK
2001    Lower East Side Printshop Special Editions Fellowship, New York, NY
1999    Susan H. Whedon Award, Yale University School of the Arts, New Haven, CT
1999    Leopold Schepp Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
1995    David S. Woods Award, New School for Social Research, New York, NY

NOTABLE RESIDENCIES
2023    Dogpatch Collective Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, San Francisco, CA    
2015    IASPIS, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm, Sweden
2014    Sert Practitioner in the Arts, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2014    Museum of Modern Art, Artists Experiment Initiative, New York, NY
2013    Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2012    Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2012    Artadia Artist-in-Residence, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY
2010    Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2010    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2009    Henry L. & Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2007    Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2006    Artpace International Artist Residency, San Antonio, TX
2005    Grizedale Arts, Cumbria, UK 

MONOGRAPHS
2023    The Compass Rose, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco, CA
2018    Models for a System, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2016    The Cries of San Francisco, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2014    Set Dressing, Arts Club of Chicago, IL
2014    Rudiments of Fife & Drum, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT 
2010    Needle Work, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2007    The Muster: What Are You Fighting For? Public Art Fund, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023     Hotchkiss, Sarah. “Art to See at the Start of 2023.” KQED Arts, January 4, 2023.
2021     Abbott, Kate. "Hancock Shakers used to hike this trail to sing and dance in worship on Holy Mount. A new sound installation grants you a similar journey." Berkshire Eagle, September 23, 2021.
2021     Falls, Susan and Jessica R. Smith. Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond. University of Georgia Press, 2021.
2020     Ball, Fiona, Naz Cuguoglu, Chloe Kwiatkowski, and Orly Vermes. The Word for World is Forest, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018     Cast of Characters. New York: Bureau of General Services, Queer Division, LGBT Community Center, 2018. 
2018     State of the World. Kansas City: H&R Block Artspace, 2018.
2018     "California College of the Arts Appoints New Deans of Fine Arts, Humanities & Sciences." Artforum, April 18, 2018.
2018     Annie Armstrong, "California College of the Arts Appoints Two New Deans." ArtNews, April 18, 2018.
2018     Sarah Hotchkiss, "di Rosa Hands Programming Over to Artists in ‘Uncertain Times’." KQED Arts, February 1, 2018. 
2017     Deborah Lee, "Common Exchange Adds Uncommon Experiences to Public Space." Art Outdoors blog, October 17, 2017.
2017     Julia Bryan-Wilson, "Harmony Hammond Goes Down." Fray: Art + Textile Politics. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
2017     "The Contemporary Jewish Museum exhibits works by Allison Smith." artdaily.com, July 21, 2017.
2017     Josh Fischer, "Interview with Allison Smith." bigredandshiny.org, June 27, 2017.
2017     Risa Puleo, "A Fanfare of Flags: Unwoven, Repurposed, Quilted, and Performed." hyperallergic.com, March 17, 2017.
​2017     Socrates Sculpture Park: Thirty Years, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, 2017.
2017     Jennifer Levin, “Trenchant Insight: Source Materiel.” Santa Fe New Mexican, April 3, 2017.
2016     Jackie Jadrnak, “‘Trench art’ was an expression of love and life amid the violence of The Great War.” Albuquerque Journal, February 19, 2016.
2016     James Voorhies, "The Way We Live Now: Modernist Ideologies at Work." What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism?, Cambridge and Berlin: CCVA, Harvard and Sternberg Press, 2016.
2016     Elizabeth Thomas, “Acting Out.” Allison Smith: The Cries of San Francisco. San Francisco: Southern Exposure, 2016.
2016     Gwen Allen, “Craft, Commerce, & Communication in Allison Smith’s The Cries of SF.” Allison Smith: The Cries of San Francisco. San Francisco: Southern Exposure, 2016.
2015     Zechnowitz, Jessie Lauren. "Re-enacting Craft in Times of War: Allison Smith and Stephanie Syjuco's Activist Art." MA in Art: Art History Thesis, SF State University, 2015.
2015     Brian Boucher, "Dread Scott Wants You to Rise Up Against Slavery." artnet.com, September 29, 2015.
2015     Sarah Urist Green, “The Muster—Allison Smith.” The Art Assignment, PBS.org, May 7, 2015.
2015     Kerri-Lynn Reeves, “Heart of the Matter.” Craft Journal 7, no. 2, Winter 2015.
2015     Thomas Milroth, “The Ideological Surface-Crack.” Sydsvenskan. Malmo, Sweden, 2015.
2015     Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, “Reactivate Utopias." What Is To Come Has Already Arrived. Donostia/ San Sebastián: Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia, 2015.
2015     Amada Cruz, Hare & Hound Press + Artpace: the Art of Collaboration. San Antonio: Linda Pace Foundation, 2015.
2015     Ann Landi, “Telling Stories in Three Dimensions: Installation Art Today.” ARTnews.com, January 20, 2015.
2015     Trent Morse, “Allison Smith: Material Girl.” ARTnews.com, January 17, 2015.
2014     Mark Pohlad, “Allison Smith: Arts Club of Chicago.” Newcity Art, December 12, 2014.
2014     Micol Hebron, “Social Fabric.” Journal of Modern Craft 6, no.3, 2014.
2014     Richard Klein, Allison Smith: Rudiments of Fife & Drum. Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2014. 
2014     Elissa Auther, “A Brief History of Quilts in Contemporary Art.” Unconventional and Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000. New York: Abrams, 2014.
2014     Nicole Archer, “Hand in Glove: Allison Smith’s ‘Set Dressing’ and the Erotics of Historic Inconsistency.” Allison Smith: Set Dressing. Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 2014.
2014     Nicole Archer, “Security Blankets: Uniforms, Hoods, and the Textures of Terror.” Women and Performance, December 6, 2014. 
2014     Keri-Lynn Reeves and Jenny Western, “The Heart of the Matter.” Cahiers métiers d'art / Craft Journal [Montreal, Canada] 7, no. 2, 2014.
2013     Rebecca Uchill, “Processing Transactions, Forming Intent: Coproduction and Exchange in the Work of Allison Smith.” FutureAnterior 10, no. 1, Summer 2013. 
2013     Scarlet Cheng, “‘Labour and Wait’ Displays the Melding of Art and Craft.” Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2013.
2013     Brooke Hodge, “Where Arts and Crafts are One.” New York Times Magazine, New York, NY, July 1, 2013. 
2013     Jacquelyn Gleisner, “New Kids on the Block: All Who Muster with Allison Smith.” art:21, June 10, 2013. 
2013     Martha Schwendener, “Fifes and Drums as Performance Art.” New York Times, New York, NY, June 7, 2013. 
2013     Barbara Pollack, “The Civil War in Art, Then and Now.” ARTnews, May 15, 2013. 
2013     Julia Bryan-Wilson, "Knit Dissent." Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, p. 245-253.
2012     Mel Y. Chen, “Masked States and the ‘Screen’ Between Security and Disability.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 40, no. 1 & 2 Spring/Summer 2012. 
2011     Matt Sussman, “Pre-Occupied.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, CA, December 20, 2011. 
2011     Frances De Vuono, “Allison Smith: MCA Denver.” Art in America, August 27, 2011. 
2011     Nirmala Nataraj, “‘The Cries of San Francisco’: Marketplace as Art.” San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, June 2, 2011. 
2011     Allie Haeusslein, "Allison Smith at MCA Denver." DailyServing.com, May 12, 2011.
2011     Gerard Brown, “Reenactment and Relic: The Civil War in Contemporary Art.” Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 
2011     Pablo Helguera, Education for Socially Engaged Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2011.
2011     Rebecca Schneider, Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment. London: Routledge, 2011. 
2011     Allie Haeusslein, "Allison Smith at MCA Denver." DailyServing.com, May 2, 2011.
2011     Janice Jefferies, "Loving Attention: An Outburst of Craft in Contemporary Art." Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
2010     Jennifer Geigel Mikulay, “Acts of Association: Allison Smith’s Craft as Civic Practice.” Journal of Modern Craft 2, no. 2 (2010). 
2008     Geir Heraldseth, “Interview with Allison Smith.” Acne Paper 7, Paris, France, Autumn 2008. 
2008     Julia Bryan-Wilson, “The Politics of Craft.” Modern Painters, February 2008. 
2008     Tavia Nyong’o, “Period Rush: Affective Transfers in Recent Queer Art and Performance.” Theater History Studies 28, 2008. 
2007     Timothy Marvel Hull, “Entrenched with Allison Smith.” Swingset 8 (2007). 
2007     Aimee Walleston, “Allison Smith’s Semantic Battleground.” Tokion 2, no. 1 (2007). 
2007     L.D. Beghtol, “Fight Club: Allison Smith’s Project Inspires Protest.” Village Voice, New York, NY, March 30, 2007. 
2006     Adrian Plant, “Allison Smith: Notion Nanny.” a-n, May 2006. 
2005     James Trainor, “The Muster.” frieze, September 2005. 
2005     Nick Stillman, “Allison Smith.” Flash Art, July/September, 2005. 
2005     Alison Benjamin, “Allison Smith: Q &A.” The Guardian, London, England, August 24, 2005. 
2005     Barbara Pollack, “Allison Smith, Victory Hall.” Time Out New York, New York, NY, June 16-22, 2005. 
2005     Randy Kennedy, “Desert Island Fantasy.” New York Times, New York, NY, May 16, 2005. 
2005     Christopher Pacetta, “Ten-hut! New York Artists Invoke Civil War Imagery to Draw Attention to Their Favorite Causes.” New York Daily News, New York, NY, May 14, 2005. 
2005     Martha Schwendener, “Muster & Commander.” Time Out New York, New York, NY, May 12-18, 2005. 
2005     Ariella Budick, “Enlisting in the Army of Art.” New York Newsday, New York, NY, May 12, 2005. 
2005     Carol Vogel, “War & Pieces by Artists.” New York Times, New York, NY, May 6, 2005. 
2002     Roberta Smith, “Art in Review: Allison Smith, Ellen Altfest.” New York Times, New York, NY, October 4, 2002.

INVITED ARTIST TALKS
2023    The Compass Rose, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
2021    Another Crossing: Excavating Histories: Technique, Research, and Collaboration, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2019    In A Body as Queer as Nature, Lambda Literary Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2018    Sculpture for Society Panel, Cleveland Sculptors Network, Cleveland, OH 
2018    In conversation with Christina Zetterlund, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2018    In conversation with Jessica Ingram, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
2017    In conversation with Anastasia James, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2017    Common Goods (with Judith Leemann), Cambridge Historical Society, Cambridge Common Park, Cambridge, MA
2015    In conversation with Jane Kimball: Source Materiel, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2014    Co-organizer, Presenter, The Curative Object Symposium, Contemporary Art Forum series, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2015    Source Materiel, Signal Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
2015    Here we LTTR, Tensta Konsthall, Tensta, Sweden
2015    Decad, Berlin, Germany
2015    Art from Research Panel, ARTspace, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
2014    Artists on Art Series, Photography and the American Civil War exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2014    Set Dressing, Arts Club of Chicago, IL
2014    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2013    Craft and Folk Art Museum/California State University, Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013    Trench Art, Subjective Histories of Sculpture Series, SculptureCenter, Vera List Center for Art & Politics, New York, NY
2012    In conversation with Jennifer DeVere Brody, Precarious Performance, History of Art Department/Theater Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley, CA
2012    ReMODEL: Sculpture Education Now Symposium, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012    Salon, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY
2012    Material Culture as Cultural Material Panel, New Approaches to Presenting American Art Symposium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2011    Expanding Craft/Expanding Objects Panel, Situated: Time-based Art and Neighborhood Ecologies Symposium, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2011    Craft Forward Symposium, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010    Huckleberry Finn Exhibition, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010    American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
2010    YES Symposium: The Persistence of Optimism, Tang Teaching Museum and ArtGallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2010    Unruly Work: Queer Art and Activism Panel, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008    Post-Studio Lessons: Teaching Art in the 21st Century Think Tank, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2008    Crafting Protest Panel, Vera List Center for Art & Politics, New York, NY
2007    In conversation with Nato Thompson, Initial Public Offerings (I.P.O.): New Objects, New Audiences Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2007    Exploring the Rise of Reenactment as a Form of Public Memory Panel, Ahistoric Occasion: The Uses of History in Contemporary Art Symposium, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
2006    Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art with Glenn D. Lowry, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2005    Who Cares: Beauty & Its Discontents Think Tank, Creative Time, New York, NY
2005    Spencer Museum of Art and University of Kansas, Art Department, Lawrence, KS
2005    In conversation with Jeffrey Uslip, Initial Public Offerings (I.P.O.) Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005    Log Cabin Symposium, Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Artists Space, New York, NY

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES & CRITIQUES
2019    Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2018    School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2017    Nomad 9 Interdisciplinary MFA Program, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
2016    Kansas City Art Institute, Fiber Department, Kansas City, MO
2016    San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2016    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2015    Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
2014    Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2013    The Critique Program, San Francisco, CA
2013    University of California, Davis, MFA Program, CA
2013    University of California, Berkeley, Department of Art Practice, CA
2012    Sonoma State University, Department of Art and Art History, Rohnert Park, CA
2012    Temple Contemporary/ Tyler School of Art, Foundations Program, Philadelphia, PA
2012    Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA
2011    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fiber & Material Studies Department, Chicago, IL
2011    Mills College, MFA Program, Oakland, CA
2010    Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2009    Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2009    Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA
2009    Massachusetts College of Art, MFA Program, Boston, MA
2009    Rhode Island School of Design, Glass Department, Providence, RI
2009    University of California, Berkeley, MFA Program, CA
2009    Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, MFA Program, St. Louis, MO
2008    Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, MFA Art Department, Minneapolis, MN
2008    Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA
2008    School of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Department, New York, NY
2008    California College of the Arts, MFA Social Practice Program, San Francisco, CA
2008    Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2007    School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, New York, NY
2007    Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, MFA Program, New Brunswick, NJ
2007    Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2007    Cranbrook Academy of Art, Sculpture Department, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2007    University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts, MFA Program, Los Angeles, CA
2006    Keynote Lecture, University of the Arts, College of Art & Design, MFA Program, Philadelphia, PA
2006    Florida International University, Miami, FL
2006    Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2006    Maryland Institute College of Art, Fiber Department/Sculptural Studies, Baltimore, MD
2006    Performance Studies Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY
2006    Maine College of Art, MFA Program, Portland, ME
2006    Yale School of Art, Sculpture Department, New Haven, CT
2006    Parsons School of Design, Fine Arts Department, New York, NY
2006    Rhode Island School of Design, Textiles Department, Providence, RI
2005    Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2005    Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, UK
2005    New York University Steinhardt School, Studio Art Department, New York, NY
2005    Graduate Thesis Committee, Columbia University School of the Arts, Visual Arts Division, New York, NY
2005    Rhode Island School of Design, Glass Department, Providence, RI
2005    Undergraduate and Graduate Critiques, Rhode Island School of Design, Textiles Department, Providence, RI
2005    Yale University School of Art, Sculpture Department, New Haven, CT
2004    Barnard College, Fine Arts Department, New York, NY
2004    Rhode Island School of Design, Printmaking Department, Providence, RI
2002    New York University Steinhardt School, Studio Art Department, New York, NY
2002    Rhode Island School of Design, Glass Department, Providence, RI
2001    Rhode Island School of Design, Glass Department, Providence, RI
2000    The Corcoran College of Art & Design, Sculpture Department, Washington, DC
2000    Andrew Mellon Visiting Artist Lecture, Pratt Institute, Visual Arts Program, Brooklyn, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea
Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, CA
Birmingham Art Museum, AL
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, IL
Clifford Chance, New York, NY
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Landfill Archive of Socially Engaged Artworks, thelandfill.org
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Living as Form Archive of Socially Engaged Practices, Creative Time, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO 
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
New York Public Library, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Queens Museum, NY
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Vera List Center, New School, New York, NY
West Collection, Oaks, PA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

EDUCATION
1999–00     Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York, NY 
1999 MFA    Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1995 BFA    Fine Arts: Sculpture, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1995 BA      Psychology, Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research, New York, NY

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2022–        Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018–        Dean of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, Oakland and San Francisco, CA
2017–18    Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University School of the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2013–17    Associate Professor, California College of the Arts, Oakland and San Francisco, CA
2008–13    Assistant Professor, California College of the Arts, Oakland and San Francisco, CA